Trim Does Not Work On XML InnerText That Contains A VbLf?

If I take the following XML:

<security>
<user>user</user>
<password>pass </password>
</security>

and call the Trim() method on the InnerText of the password node, it Trims it properly, but If I modify the fragment to look like this:

<security>
<user>user</user>
<password>pass

I can't get the Trim() method to work, pass with the spaces removed is return as pass (It has a single space at the end). I looked at the watch window and when I doubnle click the value, it shows it as:

"pass" & vbLf & ""