diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index e6b021133dd90..3e1222b7be277 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -71,3 +71,5 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     -   id: end-of-file-fixer
         exclude: ^LICENSES/|\.(html|csv|txt|svg|py)$
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+        exclude: \.(html|svg)$
diff --git a/pandas/_libs/src/ujson/lib/ultrajsonenc.c b/pandas/_libs/src/ujson/lib/ultrajsonenc.c
index 5343999c369f7..2af10a5b72d33 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/src/ujson/lib/ultrajsonenc.c
+++ b/pandas/_libs/src/ujson/lib/ultrajsonenc.c
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ void encode(JSOBJ obj, JSONObjectEncoder *enc, const char *name,
             }
 
             break;
-            
+
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/src/datetime/np_datetime.c b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/src/datetime/np_datetime.c
index f647098140528..8eb995dee645b 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/src/datetime/np_datetime.c
+++ b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/src/datetime/np_datetime.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ int cmp_npy_datetimestruct(const npy_datetimestruct *a,
  * object into a NumPy npy_datetimestruct.  Uses tzinfo (if present)
  * to convert to UTC time.
  *
- * The following implementation just asks for attributes, and thus 
+ * The following implementation just asks for attributes, and thus
  * supports datetime duck typing. The tzinfo time zone conversion
  * requires this style of access as well.
  *